The Deer Park
A war hero in a desert resort town, deciding what his own life story is worth on the open market.
Sergius O’Shaugnessy, a former Air Force pilot with a small fortune and no plans, lands in Desert D’Or, a resort town where film people wait out their disgraces. Mailer wrote it during the blacklist and it circles the question of what a man will sign, name or sell to get his career back. It was rejected by seven publishers before Putnam took it, and its subject is less Hollywood than the private accounting people do when they capitulate.
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David Thomson
Still the best novel about love, lust, identity, money, honor, power, producers, and actors.
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